Job Lane Memorial Boulder

Born in Billerica on September 27, 1718, Job Lane served with the Bedford Minutemen under Captain Jonathan Wilson and was severely wounded on April 19, 1775 when a musket ball entered his side and lodged in his hip during the British retreat, somewhere between Meriam’s Corner, Concord and Fiske Hill, Lexington.

Lame for the remainder of his life, Lane was pensioned by the government and received special compensation from the Town of Bedford including an abatement on his poll rates for every year since the war began and fourteen pounds for his military service.

Lane’s monument is prominently sited in Bedford’s Old Burying Ground. The inscription reads:

TO KEEP IN REMEMBRANCE
THE PATRIOTIC SERVICE OF
JOB LANE
1718 – 1796
Son of Job Lane and Martha Ruggles
A PROVINCIAL MILITIAMAN
OF BEDFORD
WHO WAS WOUNDED IN
CONCORD FIGHT APR. 19, 1775.
This stone is placed here by his descendants.